Food scraps at Wegmans in Pittsford are put into bins and collected by Synergy in Wyoming County, where they are converted into energy.

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Wegmans Food Markets Inc., as well as trying to decrease its own food waste, has stepped up its game on the consumer education end of the issue.

The company devoted its latest Wegmans Menu Magazine to the topic. CEO Danny Wegman urged readers in a column to plan better for food needs. Buying more food than will be used does not provide good value, he said.

We reached out to Wegmans and the Food Marketing Institute on how to reduce a home's footprint of food waste, and they offered the following tips: ...